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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Ripsaw: This Little 358ci Ford Small Block Has Yates D3 Heads And Makes 730hp NA On The Dyno – Watch!

By the time the early 2000s rolled around, Ford had a horsepower problem in NASCAR the C3 head that they were using was OK but it was definitely not up to the job of hanging with the other...

The Hyundai RM20e Is The Ultra-High Performance Electric Hatchback Of Your Dreams (Or Nightmares)

(By Tom Lohnes) – Ever since the GM EV1 in the 90’s electric cars have been getting more and more advanced with every new model and generation. This year, we get another advancement, with...

Best Worst Ship Ever: The Insane, Incredible, Insolvent, and Entirely Unbelievable Story Of The SS Great Eastern

This is the story of one of the greatest engineering achievements of the  Victorian Age. It is also the story of a ship so far ahead of its time it was one of the greatest financial failures ever...

Drag Racing Action Photos: PDRA Drag Wars Presented by Modern Racing at GALOT Motorsports Park

(Photos by David Whealon) – The 2020 PDRA Drag Wars presented by Modern Racing at GALOT Motorsports Park represented the second to last event of the season for the organization and it drew a...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Talking Camping World, Tommy Johnson Jr, Cameron Ferre, and More!

Tommy Johnson Jr and Cameron Ferre join Brian Lohnes on the NHRA Insider podcast this week. Lohnes talks Camping World, craziness at St Louis, and then has two great conversations with a veteran...

Take A Ride Down The Strip With One Of The Most Unloved Fords Ever: An 11-Second 1982 Thunderbird!

Quick, picture a 1982 Ford Thunderbird. Did you have to Google it? Sorry about that…unlike the 1983-88 “Aero Bird” that looked pretty good and earned a legend in the NASCAR circles,...

Unhinged: I Want To Modify This Super-Original 1971 Ford Pinto Badly!

It’s low-mile for it’s age, it’s paint looks day one fresh, the interior is in amazing condition. It still looks purposeful, sitting on those teeny-tiny slot mag style wheels,...

Missing The Point Has Never Been More Awesome: A Nitrous-Snorting Cobra Runs The Strip!

Carroll Shelby made a name for himself as a race car driver, but by 1959 he had been forced to retire from wheelman duties due to his heart health. Normally, he had nitroglycerin pills to take care...

Junga Bunga Cash Days: No-Prep Throwdown At Warwick Dragway

While I was standing in a lift in Michigan covering the Mid-West Drag Racing Series back in September, I happened to take a quick glance at the chat. Normally, the only time the livestream chat gets...

Got Skills? Race Winning Brands Is Hiring Across Their Company and Across The Country

As we all know, things these days are not exactly normal. There have been lots of people displaced from their jobs by all the junk going on in the world and others who feel stuck in doing what they...

Watch Scott Palmer Decimate The Ozark Raceway Park Track Record In His Top Fuel Dragster And Run Studezilla

If there is one thing that we know and love about Scott Palmer it’s that the guy ain’t scared…of anything. We have not seen Scott out much on the NHRA tour in 2020 but that...

For Just $1,000 Per Day: The New Mclaren 765LT Is Limited In Production But Nearly Unlimited In Price

(By Tom Lohnes) – Don’t blink, because you could miss the new Mclaren 765LT.  When it was released back in April everyone was impressed with it and now with official performance numbers...

Drag Racing Action Photos: 2020 PDRA Drag Wars At GALOT Motorsports Park – The Penultimate Race!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was the battle that everyone has come to expect every time the PDRA drag racing series throws the gates open at whatever track their brand of eighth mile door...

Retro Review Fun: This Look At The 1993 Jeep Grand Wagoner Is A Fun Contrast To The SUVs Of Today

The Jeep Grand Wagoneer was a mainstay of the SUV universe for decades. Built off of the basic but tough J-series truck chassis, they command incredible money on the market today and in so many ways...